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Fakealert and maybe Virtumonde

I've performed the usual adware and virus scans in succesion with restarts inbetween and have reduced the number of detections. Now I have two infestations that I am concerned with primarily. One is virtumonde which, in the past, AntiVir would detect often and it proved to be quite resilient agianst removal. I believe I have virtumonde isolated, though I've never received any symptoms associated with it, but I'd like an expert to tell me for sure. The second is a virus that AntiVir referes to as TR/Fakealert.QE. The symptoms are a red circle with a white X that display a windows style alert bubble with the text "Windows has detected spyware infection! It is recommended to use special antispyware tools to prevent data loss. Windows will now download and install the most up-to-date antispyware for you. Click here to protect your computer from spyware!". No other adverse symptoms have been noticed and with the exception of the aforementioned believe my computer to be clean. I would appreciate if the HJT team would help me with these infestations and ultimately identify if my computer is clear of infection.

Welcome to the Bleeping Computer Malware Removal Forum, sorry about the delay, but the amount of people posting with infected computers is through the roof and sometimes we can't get to logs as fast as we would like to. If you have not resolved your issue and still need assistance, post a new HJT log please as your system may have changed since your original post.

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